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Gran Turismo World Series 2024 Thread
- Thread starter Pfei
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- rodgers1
Thanks for the info. Not sure how long my GT2 race is but knowing the soft tyres maximum will definitely help. 👍🏻
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- GTP_LeGeNd-1
Protip since the races are longer now, if you want to save time testing tyre life/fuel, just increase the multipliers by a set amount, and multiply the laps you get by the same number.
For example the Fuji race, I practiced with F 6x and T 12x (3x the actual multiplier) in the NSX:
Soft tyres last 4 laps (12 laps actual).
Fuel last 10 laps according the fuel gauge (30 laps actual).
Same results as everyone has been getting. Of course, you need to do consistent laps because every sliding is amplified by 3x.
Testing done in less than 10 mins instead of 40-45 mins if you do the full race distance. Saves you a lot of time if you have a busy life 👍
For example the Fuji race, I practiced with F 6x and T 12x (3x the actual multiplier) in the NSX:
Soft tyres last 4 laps (12 laps actual).
Fuel last 10 laps according the fuel gauge (30 laps actual).
Same results as everyone has been getting. Of course, you need to do consistent laps because every sliding is amplified by 3x.
Testing done in less than 10 mins instead of 40-45 mins if you do the full race distance. Saves you a lot of time if you have a busy life 👍
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- East Yorkshire
- Zorzil
Chipping in with estimates for tyres and fuel for Round 2.
I'm currently looking at running in the SC430 in GT1. Fuel isn't an issue as long as you shift normally, and I made the Softs last 13 laps whilst starting on them in my full length test on Sunday night. Not 100% certain if running them that long is optimal since my consistency at Fuji isn't fantastic, but the front left wasn't completely red at least when I took the pit stop.
I'm currently looking at running in the SC430 in GT1. Fuel isn't an issue as long as you shift normally, and I made the Softs last 13 laps whilst starting on them in my full length test on Sunday night. Not 100% certain if running them that long is optimal since my consistency at Fuji isn't fantastic, but the front left wasn't completely red at least when I took the pit stop.
- 1,720
- Australia
I might be doing something wrong, but I tested in the 16 GTR and I'm looking at 13 to 15 laps on the softs. The degraded mediums are very slow and even when the rear left is 90% worn it's quicker for me than a 60% worn medium.
- 707
- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
Possibly, because I can't see RS lasting more than 12'ish for most. Also don't forget that slipstream is set to "Real" for the race which means the dirty air is going to be in full effect, which causes you to lose downforce when following others and your tires understeering and wearing faster.
- 1,492
- United States
- equus_ferrum
So far I haven't really noticed dirty air having a major impact in practice races. There's really only 2 corners where you're going fast enough to make a lot of downforce. I was getting held up because I couldn't get on the power as early as I wanted in the final sector when there was a car in front of me far more than I was getting held up by dirty air.
- 751
- Finland
2 stops might be viable, in case you struggle massively with tire wear in the gr2 race at Fuji, in GT1. It is slightly slower than a 1 stopper for many, but if you struggle with tires, you are probably better off doing another pit stop.
- 1,720
- Australia
I also wonder whether it's because there are 2 corners where a LOT of people are unnecessarily shredding tyres? 100R in particular is an absolute shocker for people scrubbing too hard and ruining the front left.
I'll know for sure in a couple of hours.
Edit: Well, I chickened out and did 12s/18m and I should have stuck fat and done 14/16. The last few laps on the mediums were absolute hell whereas lap 12 was comparatively relatively easy.
Can’t complain too much though, P2 for 260 odd points. 2 others tried to run 10m20s and 8m22s
Unsurprisingly they both quit.
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- rodgers1
Taking my nations results. I have absolutely terrible race pace, but decent one lap pace.
GT2 League - NSX 16 was the car I went with
Had some free time to do the 12pm slot.
Lobby was a mixed DR A & B with some good points on offer. I was Car 15.
Quali - managed to stick it on P7 with a high 1.32
Race - went for the mediums to start and I managed to get up to P4. Going along nicely and then I make an error and slip down to P7. My race pace started to collapse, around lap 5. Just struggling all over with consistency. Was running 1.35s on mediums. Pit on lap 10 and back out P7. A few laps into my 2nd stint again not really having the race pace and the car behind just decides to hit my rear and that me out of the race. Finished P13 due to 1 quitting and 2 other taking each other out. All I wanted from that race was a top 10 as that over 100 points and that would have done me instead P13 was only 72 points.
1pm slot, manage to jiggle my time a little so went again. All DR B lobby now and I was Car 2
Quali - picked up a penalty on my flying lap so aborted the lap asap to pits, and just had time to get round for 1 lap. Stuck it on P5 with a low/mid 1.33.
Race - again went with the mediums. Start of the race I was up to P3. Again Going along nicely and then lap 4 my pace just goes. I lose a few and now I’m a battle with myself in P5, and P6-8. P7 send a lunge which just misses me, but as a result I get a bad exit as I saw them dive in, this then allows 2 cars to pass, and into the next corner the 2 ahead go wide and the car behind me dives in and I’m stuck in between 3 cars pretty much and some how I’m the one who comes off worst? Every god dam time it’s me that comes of worst yet I’m not the one causing issues. Anyway after that I’m now in P11 and I switch to the softs lap 10 but again I have no race pace. I was lapping on softs in 1.34s then the last 2 laps I was doing 1.33.
P11 was good for 72 points again so I’m leaving at that. Not really enjoying this race.
Race 1 - only 1 player quit and that was on lap 19. Quit as they got hit off in P12.
Race 2 - everyone finished that race.
GT2 League - NSX 16 was the car I went with
Had some free time to do the 12pm slot.
Lobby was a mixed DR A & B with some good points on offer. I was Car 15.
Quali - managed to stick it on P7 with a high 1.32
Race - went for the mediums to start and I managed to get up to P4. Going along nicely and then I make an error and slip down to P7. My race pace started to collapse, around lap 5. Just struggling all over with consistency. Was running 1.35s on mediums. Pit on lap 10 and back out P7. A few laps into my 2nd stint again not really having the race pace and the car behind just decides to hit my rear and that me out of the race. Finished P13 due to 1 quitting and 2 other taking each other out. All I wanted from that race was a top 10 as that over 100 points and that would have done me instead P13 was only 72 points.
1pm slot, manage to jiggle my time a little so went again. All DR B lobby now and I was Car 2
Quali - picked up a penalty on my flying lap so aborted the lap asap to pits, and just had time to get round for 1 lap. Stuck it on P5 with a low/mid 1.33.
Race - again went with the mediums. Start of the race I was up to P3. Again Going along nicely and then lap 4 my pace just goes. I lose a few and now I’m a battle with myself in P5, and P6-8. P7 send a lunge which just misses me, but as a result I get a bad exit as I saw them dive in, this then allows 2 cars to pass, and into the next corner the 2 ahead go wide and the car behind me dives in and I’m stuck in between 3 cars pretty much and some how I’m the one who comes off worst? Every god dam time it’s me that comes of worst yet I’m not the one causing issues. Anyway after that I’m now in P11 and I switch to the softs lap 10 but again I have no race pace. I was lapping on softs in 1.34s then the last 2 laps I was doing 1.33.
P11 was good for 72 points again so I’m leaving at that. Not really enjoying this race.
Race 1 - only 1 player quit and that was on lap 19. Quit as they got hit off in P12.
Race 2 - everyone finished that race.
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- United Kingdom
GT2 B - i did two races with Lexus RC F GT500 Au
1st try - qualified P10 not so good time like 1.34.7 , race went okayish just i did masive oopsie that i gotten 4 sec penalty for pushing car... that pretty much ended my race but i kept going started with RM first those would last for a while so i went in lap 12 for RS and ended in P11 meh
2nd try - qualified P6 with much better time 1.33.5 , this time i went with RS first , race started very good as i managed to get into top 3 rather quickly , after some laps even got to P2 very near to the leader but as my typical ooopsie in the last corner i pushed the leader away by a mistake so i gotted a penalty and waited for him to get back , after that fiasco i dropped to P6 , went for RM after 9 lap as my RL tyre was pretty much done , so i managed to clear the P5 - i could have won this race or at least a podium ah well maybe next time
1st try - qualified P10 not so good time like 1.34.7 , race went okayish just i did masive oopsie that i gotten 4 sec penalty for pushing car... that pretty much ended my race but i kept going started with RM first those would last for a while so i went in lap 12 for RS and ended in P11 meh
2nd try - qualified P6 with much better time 1.33.5 , this time i went with RS first , race started very good as i managed to get into top 3 rather quickly , after some laps even got to P2 very near to the leader but as my typical ooopsie in the last corner i pushed the leader away by a mistake so i gotted a penalty and waited for him to get back , after that fiasco i dropped to P6 , went for RM after 9 lap as my RL tyre was pretty much done , so i managed to clear the P5 - i could have won this race or at least a podium ah well maybe next time
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- 707
- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
Mistah_MCA tested it and he ran 4 seconds slower over race distance doing 2 stops vs 1 stop. He did note that all the tire savings to run the 1 stop made it a bigger PITA and over 30 laps alot can happen to screw up the best laid plans lol.
- 751
- Finland
That is true. But I am happy that an alternate strategy can work this time to some extent. Recent TGR Cup and Nations races you were forced to a 1 stop race on very high tire wear settings, which was very bad for a tire muncher like me lol 😁. Imo this is the way forward for these GT1 longer races - adjust the settings so you can make more than one strategy to work.
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- United Kingdom
- jdeviant1983
Enjoy drving the Group 2's around Fuji but have to say this race wasn't much to write home about.
Couldn't get comfortable in the apparent meta NSX so switched back to the trusty Lexus and accepted a little less speed for better handling through the course as I just like to drive it more and know it better.
Qualified 8th, pretty meh time compared to my practice runs which weren't starting fires either. Got all the way up to 3rd starting on softs, pitted on lap 12 and came out 5th.
2 runners behind me clearly on softs for the last few laps with one catching and passing me on the last lap, annoying, but the other didn't get close so relatively satisfied though would have like to keep the 5th place for the stat.
Great cars, gorgeous place in the world, love the feeling of driving there overall.. but 20 laps later and I still could do without that sector 3 headache.
Couldn't get comfortable in the apparent meta NSX so switched back to the trusty Lexus and accepted a little less speed for better handling through the course as I just like to drive it more and know it better.
Qualified 8th, pretty meh time compared to my practice runs which weren't starting fires either. Got all the way up to 3rd starting on softs, pitted on lap 12 and came out 5th.
2 runners behind me clearly on softs for the last few laps with one catching and passing me on the last lap, annoying, but the other didn't get close so relatively satisfied though would have like to keep the 5th place for the stat.
Great cars, gorgeous place in the world, love the feeling of driving there overall.. but 20 laps later and I still could do without that sector 3 headache.
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- Spain
- Globato44
- Globato44
Terrible. Just terrible.
I patiently wait for a safe chance to overtake during several laps just to get rammed by some braindead salty because he had a 5 second penalty to serve and was being overtaken by 3 players at the same time. Dead last.
I manage to catch two players, fight for 2 laps with one of them... And then get rammed by the other one. Dead last again with no chance to catch anyone (and actually no desire to do so; what for? to get rammed again?): just to drive senseless for 12 laps. Actually 11 laps, since I got lapped.
And after one month I finally drop directly from DR B to 75% of DR C.
I hate Gr.2 races.
I forgot to save the replay, but I had the recent gameplay. Crashes at 3:54 and 12:20.
Oh, about the number of people quitting at each league: GT2, only the one who rammed me at lap 8 quit, around lap 16 I think.
I patiently wait for a safe chance to overtake during several laps just to get rammed by some braindead salty because he had a 5 second penalty to serve and was being overtaken by 3 players at the same time. Dead last.
I manage to catch two players, fight for 2 laps with one of them... And then get rammed by the other one. Dead last again with no chance to catch anyone (and actually no desire to do so; what for? to get rammed again?): just to drive senseless for 12 laps. Actually 11 laps, since I got lapped.
And after one month I finally drop directly from DR B to 75% of DR C.
I hate Gr.2 races.
I forgot to save the replay, but I had the recent gameplay. Crashes at 3:54 and 12:20.
Oh, about the number of people quitting at each league: GT2, only the one who rammed me at lap 8 quit, around lap 16 I think.
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- Finland
The new physics and these long races with crazy high tire wear forcing me to drive like a snail is just eating me alive. P13 to P13, and nowhere near the others. I finished 30 sec from P9, although I will say going on a 2 stopper and being pit manouvered off (well in some ways I could have rejoined safer perhaps) probably cost me 20-22 seconds?
How the tables turn, I'd actually rather do this race in GT2 with just 20 laps, and also I still have no idea where my pace has dissappeared. I changed wheel settings earlier this week and while the changes certainly helped slightly compared to the weekend's races, it seems it is not enough to let me be able to produce strong results. I'll give it one more go with the 1 stop strategy, looks like I can just about get the softs to do 11 laps, even though the 11th lap will be a bit slow. If nothing miraculous happens, Imma do race B and tank my DR heavily afterwards this week. This Nations Cup season will be absolutely pointless to do against these players with my current pace, which is why I'll probably accelerate the DR dropping process.
It is very annoying why all these recent GT1 races have been made so bad on the tires, I don't understand why they are doing this. I don't mind the long races that much, if they were leaner on tires. I run in a league doing 1 hr races, and I can say running the settings at leaner on the tire multiplier is much more fun than what we have now with this 💩. Favors some players more than others. But hey, not like PD cares about GT2 or lower anyway, so why do I even bother complaining. 🤷 It's my own fault that my driving style is so heavy on tires, so I guess I deserve this suffering then, being weakened for driving like I always have.
How the tables turn, I'd actually rather do this race in GT2 with just 20 laps, and also I still have no idea where my pace has dissappeared. I changed wheel settings earlier this week and while the changes certainly helped slightly compared to the weekend's races, it seems it is not enough to let me be able to produce strong results. I'll give it one more go with the 1 stop strategy, looks like I can just about get the softs to do 11 laps, even though the 11th lap will be a bit slow. If nothing miraculous happens, Imma do race B and tank my DR heavily afterwards this week. This Nations Cup season will be absolutely pointless to do against these players with my current pace, which is why I'll probably accelerate the DR dropping process.
It is very annoying why all these recent GT1 races have been made so bad on the tires, I don't understand why they are doing this. I don't mind the long races that much, if they were leaner on tires. I run in a league doing 1 hr races, and I can say running the settings at leaner on the tire multiplier is much more fun than what we have now with this 💩. Favors some players more than others. But hey, not like PD cares about GT2 or lower anyway, so why do I even bother complaining. 🤷 It's my own fault that my driving style is so heavy on tires, so I guess I deserve this suffering then, being weakened for driving like I always have.
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- The failed experiment entitled “California”.
Went on the Euro alt today for some fun, GT1 league. First slot was a disaster - wheel disconnect in qualifying. Never got a time in. Race started off rocky as I was caught in the first 3 lap back of the pack melee. Got spun back to DFL. Wheel disconnected again on lap 7 
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Figured it out when I went back into hot-lapping. You're supposed to use that screw on a Fanatec QR when running max torque. Found a suitable screw in my KTM bolt kit, shimmed it up with washers.... right as rain. A lot of the flex that was causing the disco on big hits was gone.
Second slot. Never hooked top a good Q-lap. Started 10th with a 1:32.7xx. Started on mediums for a 2-stop strategy. Got knocked around in the first 5 lap melee again, got spun and demoted to 14th on lap 3. Forkin' Hell man. Stayed the course and pitted for softs at the end of 10, and pitted again for some freshies at the end of 21, having some fun chess-match battles along the way, along with some run-ins with kamikaze dive-bombers. By lap 25-26, I was really starting to roll some coal and was picking off all the peeps that were on a 1-stop strategy. On the final corner of the final lap, I snuck up the inside of "Tigris". He beat me to the apex, but I nailed the exit making up massive ground. He then pulled a very savy, but dirty move as he eased off the accelerator, effectively brake-checking me and ruining my momentum as I went into his bumper. It worked. I finished in 6th, about .050 off his time. Should have had that spot. And without the spin, I should have podium'd. I've had run-ins with that guy before.
Regardless, I hope these longer races are here to stay
.Figured it out when I went back into hot-lapping. You're supposed to use that screw on a Fanatec QR when running max torque. Found a suitable screw in my KTM bolt kit, shimmed it up with washers.... right as rain. A lot of the flex that was causing the disco on big hits was gone.
Second slot. Never hooked top a good Q-lap. Started 10th with a 1:32.7xx. Started on mediums for a 2-stop strategy. Got knocked around in the first 5 lap melee again, got spun and demoted to 14th on lap 3. Forkin' Hell man. Stayed the course and pitted for softs at the end of 10, and pitted again for some freshies at the end of 21, having some fun chess-match battles along the way, along with some run-ins with kamikaze dive-bombers. By lap 25-26, I was really starting to roll some coal and was picking off all the peeps that were on a 1-stop strategy. On the final corner of the final lap, I snuck up the inside of "Tigris". He beat me to the apex, but I nailed the exit making up massive ground. He then pulled a very savy, but dirty move as he eased off the accelerator, effectively brake-checking me and ruining my momentum as I went into his bumper. It worked. I finished in 6th, about .050 off his time. Should have had that spot. And without the spin, I should have podium'd. I've had run-ins with that guy before.
Regardless, I hope these longer races are here to stay
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- East Yorkshire
- Zorzil
That's definitely a one-and-done for me today after doing the first slot in GT1. That was HARD.
I was in with @LVS_1986 for today's race. Speaking of which - apologies if I came across a little anti-social. I tried to say hello during the warmup but you hadn't loaded in yet, then when I tried to do it heading into qualifying I got the glitch where you can't see the cursor.
And then I was VERY rattled after the race and desperately wanting to apologise after something that happened after my pit stop. 
I qualified P6 with a 1:31.812 in the SC430 and started on the Mediums in the middle of an ocean of NSXs and a couple of GT-Rs. I didn't flub Coca-Cola on lap 1 like I have done so many times in the recent past (which felt like a win in itself!) and sort of settled in over the first couple of laps. I say sort of because whilst I didn't go backwards like I have done a lot recently, that first stint on the Mediums was hellish as I was making a lot of mistakes whilst under pressure.
In hindsight, maybe picking the SC430 wasn't the best plan. Not because the car is bad though, far from it - it was definitely the one I felt fastest with. It just doesn't have a rear view mirror, which is kind of a big deal in VR.
I had a rather "interesting" experience at the pit stop. I followed a French driver in, but he suddenly disappeared on the way out. Little did I know he'd put a little bit of fuel in and we had emerged on top of each other ghosted, and I had NO idea. I got one hell of a fright after turn 1 when I suddenly had a car appear out of nowhere on my right hand side.
I was terrified I'd squeezed him moving into position for Coca-Cola, but watching the replay back I didn't!
He got in front of me from my panic, but I got him back when we encountered a couple of the people who had put me under massive pressure during my first stint... except now the tables had turned! I managed to send it up the inside at Dunlop to pass the French driver, then took one of the Medium runners up the inside at 13th. I then got the other Medium runner at 13th on the following lap and just started trying to put distance between myself and the French driver.
Ended up finishing P5 for 195 points, just like at Spa. My fight with the other driver from East Yorkshire isn't going quite so well though. He was in my race again, but finished P3... so he's going to be move ahead of me in the local standings after tonight.
I was in with @LVS_1986 for today's race. Speaking of which - apologies if I came across a little anti-social. I tried to say hello during the warmup but you hadn't loaded in yet, then when I tried to do it heading into qualifying I got the glitch where you can't see the cursor.
And then I was VERY rattled after the race and desperately wanting to apologise after something that happened after my pit stop. I qualified P6 with a 1:31.812 in the SC430 and started on the Mediums in the middle of an ocean of NSXs and a couple of GT-Rs. I didn't flub Coca-Cola on lap 1 like I have done so many times in the recent past (which felt like a win in itself!) and sort of settled in over the first couple of laps. I say sort of because whilst I didn't go backwards like I have done a lot recently, that first stint on the Mediums was hellish as I was making a lot of mistakes whilst under pressure.
In hindsight, maybe picking the SC430 wasn't the best plan. Not because the car is bad though, far from it - it was definitely the one I felt fastest with. It just doesn't have a rear view mirror, which is kind of a big deal in VR.
I had a rather "interesting" experience at the pit stop. I followed a French driver in, but he suddenly disappeared on the way out. Little did I know he'd put a little bit of fuel in and we had emerged on top of each other ghosted, and I had NO idea. I got one hell of a fright after turn 1 when I suddenly had a car appear out of nowhere on my right hand side.
I was terrified I'd squeezed him moving into position for Coca-Cola, but watching the replay back I didn't!He got in front of me from my panic, but I got him back when we encountered a couple of the people who had put me under massive pressure during my first stint... except now the tables had turned! I managed to send it up the inside at Dunlop to pass the French driver, then took one of the Medium runners up the inside at 13th. I then got the other Medium runner at 13th on the following lap and just started trying to put distance between myself and the French driver.
Ended up finishing P5 for 195 points, just like at Spa.
My fight with the other driver from East Yorkshire isn't going quite so well though. He was in my race again, but finished P3... so he's going to be move ahead of me in the local standings after tonight. 
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- United Kingdom
- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
Terrible performance. DFL, on my own for about 17 laps.
I’ve hit a wall and don’t think I’m going to continue much further. Too slow for DR B, too many tracks like this where I’m seconds off the pace. Just not fun, wasting time. I’m going to do the Manufacturers with Ferrari - almost certainly down in GT 3 - and then call it quits with this game online. Just do the TTs and not renew my Plus.
200+ races over both accounts is about 199 more than I’ve done online in any other game, so got my moneys worth.
I’ve hit a wall and don’t think I’m going to continue much further. Too slow for DR B, too many tracks like this where I’m seconds off the pace. Just not fun, wasting time. I’m going to do the Manufacturers with Ferrari - almost certainly down in GT 3 - and then call it quits with this game online. Just do the TTs and not renew my Plus.
200+ races over both accounts is about 199 more than I’ve done online in any other game, so got my moneys worth.
- 751
- Finland
Well not sure I drove that much quicker on my 2nd try in the last slot, but I made fewer mistakes and my strategy worked well. Improved my quali time from 1.32.7 to 1.32.280 and that was enough for a P7 on the grid, less than a tenth from P5. Really happy with that, but a long, demanding race ahead.
Seeing how bad the dirty air was and how much fighting seemed to cost, I decided to start on softs, to get some gap from drivers behind. That proved to be a surprsingly good strat, ran in P5-P6 the first stint, then pitted on lap 11 when the left front was fully dead. Then with a bit of stroke of luck and a good out lap on cold mediums managed to get past two nearby contenders with an undercut and overcut, I think I was net 4th (excluding drivers yet to pit ahead) at the start of lap 13.
Managed to keep a slightly faster Italian behind, dirty air seemed to hurt the Italian and maybe that player did struggle more than me with the mediums too. 🤔 After lap 19 pretty much everyone had pit and still up in P4, but I noticed a German had pit for softs and was only a few seconds behind. While they were fighting behind, I could stay ahead for now, but eventually someone on a 2 stop did get in the way slightly and we got bunched up.
On lap 23 I noticed my tires would really struggle rest of the race, I only had around 25-30 % left front tire left, but I had no other option than to just stay out and try to survive, while saving the tires. I guess I pushed a bit too hard to try and stay in P4. Eventually let them both through on lap 24 or 25, the Italian and the German, and then decided to just start to nurse the front left tire massively, plus I had a good 7+ seconds behind. On lap 27 the Italian ahead spun out, up to P5. At the start of lap 29, front left was fully dead but luckily I still had over 5 second of a gap behind. And that is where I stayed for the end of the race.
Very happy with the result, but it also seemed like the lobby was way easier now. Perhaps the faster drivers were done for the night after first 2 slots? Good to know, so at least it seems like I can beat many of the lower half drivers from my normal lobby, because those gaps say it all really, I don't have the pace to be at the front currently. P9 was 16 sec off P1 in my 2nd slot, I can't recall the race times, but I still think it tells a factual story. In any case I'm really relieved to finally get a good result in a GTWS race.
But I still think PD should be more sensible with race length and tire wear. This race should have been 26-28 laps - would allow to push the tires some more, but you'd still have to think about it, and it also would have made a 2 stop strat stronger. 🤔 I lost 14 seconds to the German in P3 last 6-7 laps, that is so bad and mainly due to my high tire wear.🥵
Seeing how bad the dirty air was and how much fighting seemed to cost, I decided to start on softs, to get some gap from drivers behind. That proved to be a surprsingly good strat, ran in P5-P6 the first stint, then pitted on lap 11 when the left front was fully dead. Then with a bit of stroke of luck and a good out lap on cold mediums managed to get past two nearby contenders with an undercut and overcut, I think I was net 4th (excluding drivers yet to pit ahead) at the start of lap 13.
Managed to keep a slightly faster Italian behind, dirty air seemed to hurt the Italian and maybe that player did struggle more than me with the mediums too. 🤔 After lap 19 pretty much everyone had pit and still up in P4, but I noticed a German had pit for softs and was only a few seconds behind. While they were fighting behind, I could stay ahead for now, but eventually someone on a 2 stop did get in the way slightly and we got bunched up.
On lap 23 I noticed my tires would really struggle rest of the race, I only had around 25-30 % left front tire left, but I had no other option than to just stay out and try to survive, while saving the tires. I guess I pushed a bit too hard to try and stay in P4. Eventually let them both through on lap 24 or 25, the Italian and the German, and then decided to just start to nurse the front left tire massively, plus I had a good 7+ seconds behind. On lap 27 the Italian ahead spun out, up to P5. At the start of lap 29, front left was fully dead but luckily I still had over 5 second of a gap behind. And that is where I stayed for the end of the race.
Very happy with the result, but it also seemed like the lobby was way easier now. Perhaps the faster drivers were done for the night after first 2 slots? Good to know, so at least it seems like I can beat many of the lower half drivers from my normal lobby, because those gaps say it all really, I don't have the pace to be at the front currently. P9 was 16 sec off P1 in my 2nd slot, I can't recall the race times, but I still think it tells a factual story. In any case I'm really relieved to finally get a good result in a GTWS race.
But I still think PD should be more sensible with race length and tire wear. This race should have been 26-28 laps - would allow to push the tires some more, but you'd still have to think about it, and it also would have made a 2 stop strat stronger. 🤔 I lost 14 seconds to the German in P3 last 6-7 laps, that is so bad and mainly due to my high tire wear.🥵
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- 497
- Oregon
- Deputy_Fishtail
Good race and a fast lobby that put in in my place 😜
Qualified p9 with a 1:32.5 and my best practice lap was 1:31.89 so I felt like I did good based on how I typically qualify.
T1 had a little bit of rubbing on the exit but not crazy bad. I did get knocked back to p14 coming out of it but I was still right behind the traffic.
I planned to do a 2 stop and probably should have changed my strat after T1 but I stuck to my plan not knowing how things would unfold.
Really tough getting through traffic and I used up my early soft tire advantage while trying to get past slow traffic which wasn’t easy to do.
Many laps in the 1:35s and I still went for my 12-6-12 run. I probably should have saved the mediums and stayed out for 18 laps on them but I really wasn’t sure how the field was going to play out.
Caught up to a few cars on the last two laps but not enough to get anything done.
Finished p11 and took my medicine from a pretty fast group for me.
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Qualified p9 with a 1:32.5 and my best practice lap was 1:31.89 so I felt like I did good based on how I typically qualify.
T1 had a little bit of rubbing on the exit but not crazy bad. I did get knocked back to p14 coming out of it but I was still right behind the traffic.
I planned to do a 2 stop and probably should have changed my strat after T1 but I stuck to my plan not knowing how things would unfold.
Really tough getting through traffic and I used up my early soft tire advantage while trying to get past slow traffic which wasn’t easy to do.
Many laps in the 1:35s and I still went for my 12-6-12 run. I probably should have saved the mediums and stayed out for 18 laps on them but I really wasn’t sure how the field was going to play out.
Caught up to a few cars on the last two laps but not enough to get anything done.
Finished p11 and took my medicine from a pretty fast group for me.
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- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
Mehh....could of been better, could of been worse I suppose.
Q'd in 8th with a 32.7.....got bumped around and penalized on the first lap for 2 seconds sending me back to next to last I believe. Did 2 10 lap stints on RS and last 10 laps on RM. Worked back up to a fairly boring 10th.
Q'd in 8th with a 32.7.....got bumped around and penalized on the first lap for 2 seconds sending me back to next to last I believe. Did 2 10 lap stints on RS and last 10 laps on RM. Worked back up to a fairly boring 10th.
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- mattmangrease
My 8pm Nations Cup race just crashed on lap 17... Suddenly everyone was kicked from the server.
- 406
- United States
yeah, not happening today. Just a less-than-mediocre finish at P12 today. I saw @afc5150 in the lobby again, you had a good race it seems. I didn't see you pit, were you on M,S? While everyone was pitting I was only 4secs behind you, but finished 15secs behind. And got undercut by those that pitted after me. I really faded in the second half of the race and I don't think it was because I was on M, I just got slow.... But I did get a CRB, small victories.
I made A again at RBR this week, but more races like today and I am perfectly capable of losing it before the Manu series gets a signup. Everyone here knows that, regardless of whether I make GT1 or GT2, I am going to complain, right?!
I made A again at RBR this week, but more races like today and I am perfectly capable of losing it before the Manu series gets a signup. Everyone here knows that, regardless of whether I make GT1 or GT2, I am going to complain, right?!
- 611
- Canada
- AFC-R6N
Did 2 slots this evening, GT2 high B/S low A/S
Slot 6 - after rushing home from work, chose the GT-R, qualified in 13th, crashed on lap 1, and managed to bring it home a lonely 9th for 98 points.
Slot 8 - took the mighty NSX this time, immediately felt better and went Q7 to P5 for 122-ish points. Incredibly clean and hard-fought race from where I was, one of the best I've been in online in either GTS or GT7 in terms of respect on the track!
Had @icycls closing in at one point as the pit cycle was on, not sure what happened in the end, but always good to see a friendly face out there. I ran the 12M/8S strategy both races. *edit - set fast lap, too 
Really enjoying Gt7 lately, with the GTWS, Gazoo and Time Trials, it's kept me really busy with always something to do.
Slot 6 - after rushing home from work, chose the GT-R, qualified in 13th, crashed on lap 1, and managed to bring it home a lonely 9th for 98 points.
Slot 8 - took the mighty NSX this time, immediately felt better and went Q7 to P5 for 122-ish points. Incredibly clean and hard-fought race from where I was, one of the best I've been in online in either GTS or GT7 in terms of respect on the track!
Had @icycls closing in at one point as the pit cycle was on, not sure what happened in the end, but always good to see a friendly face out there. I ran the 12M/8S strategy both races. *edit - set fast lap, too Really enjoying Gt7 lately, with the GTWS, Gazoo and Time Trials, it's kept me really busy with always something to do.
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Dep Fishtail
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- 497
- Oregon
- Deputy_Fishtail
By the time June rolls around I’ll probably be in GT2 again and you in GT1 as we swap places on the DR roller coaster 😁
Doing Nations and Toyota is giving me a good bit of competition in the pairing and I’m on the low end of the talent pool. 😂 So we’ll see what the next couple of weeks bring.
GL to all doing the last slot!
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- United States
- equus_ferrum
All week long I'd been slightly faster in the '16 GT-R than in the NSX that was dominating the leaderboards, so I decided to buck the trend and use the GT-R. I'd also been enjoying the 2-stop strategy in the practice races I'd done leading up to this round, so I was prepared to do that should I wind up mired in traffic like I usually do at Fuji.
Slot 1: The room loaded, and to my amusement, I was the ONLY driver NOT in a '16 NSX in the entire race! I qualified P8 after getting a big twitch at the exit of the chicane on my 2nd flying lap, so elected to start on Mediums and adjust my strategy between 1 and 2 stop on the fly depending on how traffic worked out. As luck would have it, the 2 cars directly in front of me came to blows at the penultimate corner and spun each other, letting me through to P6 and leaving me with a slight gap to the cars in front. I was able to break the slipstream to the pack behind me, and at the same time those in front pulled away from me, giving me some room to drive smoothly and not worry about being held up, so I committed to a 1-stop strategy. Another spin by a front-runner in the early laps at the exit of the penultimate corner gave me P5, which is where I would spend most of the first stint.
About mid-way through my first stint, I started slowly reeling in 3rd and 4th, and at the same time someone behind me had gotten through the pack and was starting to run me down. I caught 3rd and 4th around Lap 12 and they held me up until they pitted on Lap 13 (turns out they'd started on Softs), allowing the car behind me to close right up to my rear bumper and eventually pass me. They'd clearly taken better care of their tires, and I knew the 2 others ahead of me that pitted would equally be sitting ducks for me once I swapped onto my Softs, so I didn't fight and tried to minimize the time lost before I pitted. The car that passed me then pitted on Lap 15, and the former leader, who came out of the pits directly behind us, passed me into T1. All this dirty air had allowed another one of the cars behind me to get within less than 2s, and I was worried about being undercut, so I pitted 1-2 laps earlier than I'd planned on Lap 16 for Softs, knowing I'd have to stretch them farther than I'd practiced at all up until this point.
When the pits had cycled through, I was back in P6 on Softs with no pressure from behind and 2 cars directly ahead on Mediums. Knowing I'd have to go almost half the race on Softs, and that the 2 cars directly ahead had less grip on the Mediums, I took it easy while slowly reeling 5th and 4th place in. 2nd place then disconnected, moving all of us up a spot and suddenly giving me a shot at the podium. I took 4th place going into T1 on Lap 20, then doing the same thing to 3rd on Lap 23, taking the easy overtake attempts rather than burn up my Softs by being aggressive (aided by the fact that there was no one else immediately behind me to force me to hurry up). Then on Lap 26, the car that passed me at the end of our first stint, which was now 9s ahead of me and rapidly gaining on the leader, spun at T1 and handed me 2nd. He was able to claw back the gap and stay in my slipstream the final 2 laps, but I held on for a 2nd place finish and put the only GT-R in the race (and only car that wasn't a '16 NSX) on the podium! Oh, and it was worth 291 points as well.
Slot 1: The room loaded, and to my amusement, I was the ONLY driver NOT in a '16 NSX in the entire race! I qualified P8 after getting a big twitch at the exit of the chicane on my 2nd flying lap, so elected to start on Mediums and adjust my strategy between 1 and 2 stop on the fly depending on how traffic worked out. As luck would have it, the 2 cars directly in front of me came to blows at the penultimate corner and spun each other, letting me through to P6 and leaving me with a slight gap to the cars in front. I was able to break the slipstream to the pack behind me, and at the same time those in front pulled away from me, giving me some room to drive smoothly and not worry about being held up, so I committed to a 1-stop strategy. Another spin by a front-runner in the early laps at the exit of the penultimate corner gave me P5, which is where I would spend most of the first stint.
About mid-way through my first stint, I started slowly reeling in 3rd and 4th, and at the same time someone behind me had gotten through the pack and was starting to run me down. I caught 3rd and 4th around Lap 12 and they held me up until they pitted on Lap 13 (turns out they'd started on Softs), allowing the car behind me to close right up to my rear bumper and eventually pass me. They'd clearly taken better care of their tires, and I knew the 2 others ahead of me that pitted would equally be sitting ducks for me once I swapped onto my Softs, so I didn't fight and tried to minimize the time lost before I pitted. The car that passed me then pitted on Lap 15, and the former leader, who came out of the pits directly behind us, passed me into T1. All this dirty air had allowed another one of the cars behind me to get within less than 2s, and I was worried about being undercut, so I pitted 1-2 laps earlier than I'd planned on Lap 16 for Softs, knowing I'd have to stretch them farther than I'd practiced at all up until this point.
When the pits had cycled through, I was back in P6 on Softs with no pressure from behind and 2 cars directly ahead on Mediums. Knowing I'd have to go almost half the race on Softs, and that the 2 cars directly ahead had less grip on the Mediums, I took it easy while slowly reeling 5th and 4th place in. 2nd place then disconnected, moving all of us up a spot and suddenly giving me a shot at the podium. I took 4th place going into T1 on Lap 20, then doing the same thing to 3rd on Lap 23, taking the easy overtake attempts rather than burn up my Softs by being aggressive (aided by the fact that there was no one else immediately behind me to force me to hurry up). Then on Lap 26, the car that passed me at the end of our first stint, which was now 9s ahead of me and rapidly gaining on the leader, spun at T1 and handed me 2nd. He was able to claw back the gap and stay in my slipstream the final 2 laps, but I held on for a 2nd place finish and put the only GT-R in the race (and only car that wasn't a '16 NSX) on the podium! Oh, and it was worth 291 points as well.
- 4,548
- Australia
I won on a one stopper but Fuji is still an awful, awful track.
- 2,429
- The failed experiment entitled “California”.
I personally think PD has nailed it with these first 2 races. I did 2-slots on my alt Euro account this afternoon and only got one slot on the main N/A account which I absolutely botched!!!
Was on a 2-stop strategy, and on my second pit for Softs at lap 20, I somehow managed to not switch tires, and effectively turned a 2 stopper into a 3 stopper 🤣. I contemplating trying to carry worn Softs for 10 more laps, but I knew it was going to be worthless. Pitted again for fresh Softs. Came out in DFL, fought my way back up to 9th as the one-stoppers started to struggle.
Altogether, it was a fun day of racing
Was on a 2-stop strategy, and on my second pit for Softs at lap 20, I somehow managed to not switch tires, and effectively turned a 2 stopper into a 3 stopper 🤣. I contemplating trying to carry worn Softs for 10 more laps, but I knew it was going to be worthless. Pitted again for fresh Softs. Came out in DFL, fought my way back up to 9th as the one-stoppers started to struggle.
Altogether, it was a fun day of racing
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